One of the most annoying things to me about switching over to OSX was that F5 no longer did a full refresh. I do my fair share of web projects, so I’m constantly refreshing pages. For the first month of owning my Mac, I hit F5, nothing happened, and then I begrudgingly grabbed the mouse and clicked the refresh button. I know that ‘command – R’ is the Mac equivalent to F5 for a browser refresh, but I’m just so used to F5 (and I like just hitting one key), so I really wanted to have F5 work as the reload button.
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Quit Mail and open System Preferences. Click the Keyboard & Mouse preferences panel, then click the Keyboard Shortcuts tab. Press the plus sign to add a new shortcut key. When the sheet comes down, find Mail in the Application pull-down menu, and enter Get New Mail as the Menu Title. Then click in the Keyboard Shortcut input and hit the F5 key. Set the refresh target URL to the page itself so the browser will automatically retrieve the page again after the preset time period. From Dynamic Web Programming and HTML5 by Paul S. Wang CRC Press, 2012: F5 is a keyboard shortcut. From The Internet For Dummies by John R. Levine, Margaret Levine Young Wiley, 2015. Whilst the Apple Mac keyboard includes the f keys at the top of the keyboard the same functions from Windows and Linux are not repeated. In a browser to refresh the page content the equivalent of holding down the f5 key is command + R.
I was complaining to Dan about this and he quite easily walked me through how to make this happen. They say, “Its the little things in life”, and this is one of those little things that makes me smile when I use it. I primarily use Google Chrome, so that is what these instructions are for. A slightly modified version could be worked out to do this in Safari (if you really want that, just leave a comment and I’ll figure out and post the exact steps).
Follow the steps below and you’ll be F5’ing it up just like me.
Open System Preferences (I usually use Spotlight)
How To Set F5 Key For Refresh Mac ProSelect Keyboard
Select the Keyboard Shortcuts button at the top
Select Application Shortcuts
Select ‘Google Chrome’. Type ‘Refresh This Page’ for the menu title. Press F5 when in the Keyboard shortcut area. Click add.
Now, go straight to Chrome and refresh the page by clicking F5.
Until recently, I ran Firefox on my Mac with the cache disabled because I found it annoying that my tweaks weren’t updated when refreshing a work in progress. My usual Control/Command+F5 wouldn’t work for me. Being used to Firefox on Windows, I’d often forget and find myself powering up VoiceOver.
To clarify, on a Mac, Control+F5 is not a hard refresh as it is on Windows. In the majority of cases, the Command key replaces the Control key when converting Windows shortcuts to Mac ones. For example, Control+T to open a new tab under Windows is Command+T on a Mac.
Logic dictates that a hard refresh should be Command+F5 on my Mac. Indeed, the Firefox documentation on keyboard shortcuts shows that Command+F5 should refresh overriding the cache, but that loads VoiceOver for me (OS X 10.4 or later).
The long and short of itI now use Command+R for refresh and Command+Shift+R for when I need to do a hard refresh. As you’d expect, you can replace Command with Control for the Windows equivalent. And now I can turn my cache back on and save some time and bandwidth!
Now, go straight to Chrome and refresh the page by clicking F5.
Until recently, I ran Firefox on my Mac with the cache disabled because I found it annoying that my tweaks weren’t updated when refreshing a work in progress. My usual Control/Command+F5 wouldn’t work for me. Being used to Firefox on Windows, I’d often forget and find myself powering up VoiceOver.
To clarify, on a Mac, Control+F5 is not a hard refresh as it is on Windows. In the majority of cases, the Command key replaces the Control key when converting Windows shortcuts to Mac ones. For example, Control+T to open a new tab under Windows is Command+T on a Mac.
Logic dictates that a hard refresh should be Command+F5 on my Mac. Indeed, the Firefox documentation on keyboard shortcuts shows that Command+F5 should refresh overriding the cache, but that loads VoiceOver for me (OS X 10.4 or later).
The long and short of itI now use Command+R for refresh and Command+Shift+R for when I need to do a hard refresh. As you’d expect, you can replace Command with Control for the Windows equivalent. And now I can turn my cache back on and save some time and bandwidth!
Of course, I could have set my own keyboard shortcuts! But then I’d have to set them up on all installations of Firefox I use.
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